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Green power supply start-up hires new engineering veep

The head of engineering from high-speed memory company Rambus has jumped shipped to join Green Plug, which is plugging pun intended technology for universal power adapters that work across a range of consumer electronics and computing devices. Kevin Jones, who becomes Green Plug's vice president of engineering,...

Tags: Rambus Inc., Engineering, Power Supply, Green Plug, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Demo 08: Green Plug debuts universal power supply

Demo 08: Green Plug debuts universal power supplyUSB somehow became the "universal" power supplyhttp://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=467USB somehow became the "universal" power supply. 802.3af is also another "universal" power supply. Oh what I wouldn't give for a laptop that could sip power from 802.3af or full blow 802.3at to get full...

Tags: power supply, Green Plug, IEEE 802.3af

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Imagine having just one power supply for all your portable gadgets

Last week, during an interview for this blog, I kicked the spaghetti ball of cords under my desk and accidentally switched off my telephone mid-response. Oops. Redfaced, I climbed underneath to plug everything back in and smacked my head in the process. Nothing new, really, for clutzy old me. ...

Tags: Power Supply, Green Plug, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-28

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eVGA GeForce 9400 GT - graphics adapter - GF 9400 GT - 1 GB

Great for Windows 7The EVGA GeForce 9400GT can be summarized in one word; Performance. The Windows Experience Index increased from 3.5 to 4.9, mostly because the old card had only 128 MB of memory while this one has 1 GB. Several things worth mentioning, especially for Windows 7...

Tags: installation disk, graphics, card, eVGA, Microsoft Windows 7, adapter

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Carwatchers watching Tokyo

Arguably the Tokyo Auto Show is now more important than the one that opens the calendar year in Detroit. And the show in Tokyo opens officially on October 21, so that means all the competitors are busy seeding the blogosphere with their hints and leaks and hype. There...

Tags: Mitsubishi Corp., Subaru, Car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Plug-in, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

How the cordless Powermat charging system took my iPod touch hostage [review]

Unnecessary..... POS if you ask me!Cordless charging will work only whenit will be standardized and built into the various devices.what about solar-charging wireless?i've heard it was on the drawing boards...has anyone refined this 'green tech' to the point where it can be relied on?Oh, well... The transformer is such an...

Tags: Smart phones, hostage, iPod touch hostage, cordless Powermat, Powermat, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business

M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., mainframe, U.S. Department of Justice, M/F

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Green Grid releases green data center resources

Looks like The Green Grid is getting deeper into the Green IT tools business. The organization has launched a free online site with maps that data center managers in Japan and 33 European countries can use to figure out the extent to which they can use free cooling (the process...

Tags: Data Center, Grid, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Open source and forced obsolescence

You gutted your own articleFirst, no one forces you to update your software, period. There *are* companies that won't support antiques, and who can blame them? Support costs are very high, especially since one person or team can't be expected to be expert in a dozen different versions of the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), obsolescence, open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Denon AVR-790

Editors' note: This review is nearly identical to the Denon AVR-1910, as the two products are extremely similar. The only differences are slightly different cosmetics and the AVR-790 lacks IR inputs/outputs and the ability to drive "B" front speakers.The capability to upconvert analog video sources has become standard on midrange...

Tags: Denon, Denon AVR-790, receiver

Product reviews 2009-09-29

Now there's a switch: New Belkin surge protector timed to power down certain outlets

This post is about one of those small gadgets that could make a lot of difference when it comes to your Green IT profile: a surge protector with a timer. Belkin's new Conserve Surge with Timer, which carries a retail price of $34.99 (about $7 more than...

Tags: Belkin Corp., Outlet, Scanners, Productivity, Engineering, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-29

The best VoIP solution is ...

What about hosted?Wondering if you guys would be willing to discuss the most obvious omission... hosted. It's like choosing which car to buy when its cheaper to take a limo.RE: The best VoIP solution is ...Your article was only comprehensive if you consider just the IP-PBX and desktop telephone;...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Fax, Zultys, Voice Mail, VoIP Solution, AC power, SIP, VoIP

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Car news from Frankfurt. Color it green.

CNET has a gallery of some of the new German-made cars debuting in Frankfurt this week. Hybrids, plug-ins, high efficiency cars. Here they come...eventually. Lexus LF. Photo courtesy CNET. There's now evidence that Toyota, maker of the top-selling hybrid Prius, has decided to...

Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Frankfurt, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-17

'Mericans say: "Gimme a plug-in"

Pay more, yes...Pay more than the gas price we would save over the life of the car, no. That's the issue now, you do not save more in the long run. Once we get to the point where we would merely break even, then I would seriously consider a plug-in.Electric...

Tags: Plug-in car, car, plug-in, electric car, battery, commute, No.

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

TV Everywhere: (Almost) everyone is at least trying it

Media CentersWhat I am looking for is integration into Windows Media Center, or any other media center app that requires Cable Card for HD subscription content. In the beginning, they should at least give us a plug-in to Media Center to access this limited content, but ultimately I would like...

Tags: Media Center PCs, TV, Media Center PC

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Cell2Tel Bluetooth Gateway

Even though a lot of people use their cell phones as their primary means of contact, many are still hesitant to give up their landlines altogether. Not only is the call quality usually better, but the comfort of using a regular desk telephone can't compare to holding a little cell...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Cell2Tel Bluetooth Gateway, cell phone, phone

Product reviews 2009-08-18

Signs show Linux moving into the driver's seat

Just Works!Yes, it is a very good situation to have Linux moving "into the driver's seat".I install my preferred distros on my boxes, notebooks and netbooks and everything just works.Very nice indeed.Unfortunate Driver ModelUntil Linux re-architects the driver model to detach most of them from the kernel, there will be...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, binary driver

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Review: Verizon MiFi 3G access point

I just returned from a family vacation in and around Denver, Seattle and Vancouver more on that later and had the pleasure of toting a Verizon MiFi 2200 with me for the trip. The MiFi is billed as an "intelligent Mobile Hotspot" and is basically a 3G...

Tags: Verizon MiFi, Verizon Communications Inc., Access Point, Wireless LANs, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Logitech Harmony 900

When we reviewed the Harmony One last year, we gave it an enthusiastic Editors' Choice and lamented only the fact that there was no RF option for people who had components hidden in cabinets or in closets. Well, over a year later, Logitech has given us what we asked...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Blaster worm, cabinet, Logitech

Product reviews 2009-08-11

Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

Do we put competitive advantage at risk when moving to generic services? Or perhaps the whole scenario of enterprise IT being edged out by the cloud is overblown? Consider the the mainframe, as Dana Gardner recently put it: "In the early 1990s, IT pundits, and my former boss Stewart...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Information Technology, SOA, Cloud, Jim, BBrad, Business Intelligence, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Servers, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-10